TY - JOUR T1 - Could the smoking gun in the fight against COVID-19 be the (rh)ACE-2? JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J DO - 10.1183/13993003.01560-2020 VL - 56 IS - 1 SP - 2001560 AU - Dhamend Lutchman Y1 - 2020/07/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/56/1/2001560.abstract N2 - Two interesting publications in the European Respiratory Journal recently by Russo et al. [1] and Leung et al. [2] discuss the possible role of nicotine in this pandemic and the “furious pursuit for better therapeutics”.Exogenous supplement of recombinant human (rh)ACE-2 might be a brilliant idea in the treatment of COVID-19. Soluble ACE-2 might impact viral spread, since binding to soluble receptor has been shown to block SARS-CoV-2 entry. https://bit.ly/3bsUKO2 ER -